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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OhioHenry Blackstone BANNING
(1836-1881)
BANNING, Henry Blackstone,
a Representative from Ohio; born in Bannings Mills, Ohio, November
10, 1836; attended the Clinton district school, Mount Vernon
Academy, and Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in 1857 and commenced practice in Mount Vernon,
Ohio; during the Civil War enlisted April 1861 in the Union Army as
a private; commissioned captain of the Fourth Regiment, Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, June 5, 1861; colonel of the Eighty-seventh
Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, June 25, 1862; honorably
mustered out October 4, 1862; commissioned lieutenant colonel of
the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry,
January 1, 1863; transferred to the One Hundred and Twenty-first
Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, April 5, 1863; colonel November
10, 1863; brevetted brigadier general and major general of
Volunteers March 13, 1865; resigned January 1, 1865; member of the
State house of representatives in 1866 and 1867; moved to
Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1869 and resumed the practice of law; elected
as a Liberal Republican to the Forty-third Congress and as a
Democrat to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4,
1873-March 3, 1879); chairman, Committee on Military Affairs
(Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate
for renomination in 1878 to the Forty-sixth Congress, and for
election in 1880 to the Forty-seventh Congress; resumed the
practice of law; died in Cincinnati, Ohio, December 10, 1881;
interment in Spring Grove Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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